The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a flame to be kind... - Desiderius Erasmus

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a flame to be kindled."

Desiderius Erasmus Education

Humanist Scholar Theologian Dutch 1466–1536

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"I ain't got the education you got, bub."

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